Fukuoka #9B Miyata

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Fukuoka #9-B Source: Wes Injerd Kajima Tanko (Mining Company Link) Also Onoura Tanko Location: Fukuoka-ken, Kurate-gun, Miyata-machi Exact Location Map Map of all Fukuoka area Camps - By Wes Injerd- great overview of where camps were in relation to each other. Camp is at center of map. History Timeline: 4 Dec 1943: Established as 20-B (POWS ex Singapore) 407 Dutch POWs arrive plus some British, 500 total. From Moji by train then marched last 7 miles into camp. 10 Apr 1944: Renamed 12-D 18 Jun 1944: 100 Dutch soldiers arrive ex Thailand (Burma Railway)- on Teia Maru March 1945: More POWS arrive on Taiko Maru June 1945: More POWs arrive from Fuk-01-Main ex Sasebo per Rogge affidavit; a number of British officers arrive from Zentsuji. Aug 1945: Renamed 9-B Sep 1945: Rescue effected Photographs: Picture of men taken by USN Ens Dale Rowland, of four POWs on deck of LST 795 which transported the Miyata POW's from Nagasaki to Okinawa between the 20th and 22nd of September 1945. Used with permission Angeline Rowland, widow of late Dale Rowland. Man on far left is Major Ian Graham of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Man on right is Dutch POW Johann Maul. Other 2 are unidentified. Scan by Bill Maul  Click for larger image Picture looking uphill, 17 September 1945. Source: Photostats, RG 389 Box 2123. Click on pic for larger image Original not located Picture of camp (below) taken from left of above picture courtsey of Edward Burki, Warrant Officer RNLAF Click on picture for larger image Click here for high resolution scan (170 Kb)- scan courtesy of Bill Maul

Special Pages for all Fukuoka Camps - A must see! Slave Labor: Coal Mining Rosters Yanks ALL British- ALL Dutch- majority of names but not complete Dutch Deceased Dutch - Pending Known Dutch: per Bill Maul & others Dr Captain Hilfman [Camp Commandant] Joha, Chris Geelhoed (an Engineer) Groenevelt, Pieter Hendrik (see death roster) Ortwin Pieter Aurelius Louwerens Schuppers, Gerrit Hendrik Wijnants Johann (Hans) Maul - read his amazingly detailed letter of conditons in this camp. Also an extraordinary description of the hunger and starvation imposed by the Japanese Hell Ships (3): Hawaii Maru - (Picture) Original group of Dutch & British loaded on 5th Nov 1943, departed on 7th with 500 POWs, a 29 day voyage, no deaths reported. British (150) later sent to Fukuoka #17 at Omuta. Aramis- renamed the Teia Maru was the French liner that carried the men arriving on 18 June 1944, ex Burma-Thailand Railroad. ARAMIS (MARU). On June 18, 1944 the Aramis arrived in Japan (Moji): 300 POWs went to Fukuoka 6 (ORIO), 100 (all Dutch) to Fukuoka 9 (MYATA), 250 (included 150 Aussies) to Fukuoka 17 (Omuta) and 350 to Fukuoka 21 (Nakama). Taiko Maru - (alias Winchester Maru) brought 700 POWs from Keelung Formosa (Taiwan) to Moji in early March 1945. The POWs were distributed mainly between the camps at Miyata 9B, Hakodate #2, Omine 5B and Fukuoka # 24 at Senryu. Affidavits: Summary of Rogge Report